I worked in New Zealand myself a season when I was first getting started 
with bees.  The beekeeper I worked for did something with his supers that 
I didn't know to wonder about at the time, but it's puzzled me since: he 
stored his supers "sticky," in other words, with the residual film of 
honey left after extracting.  I remember him lamenting that due to a poor 
year the year before he was having to put a lot of dry supers on the 
hives, which didn't work as well as the stickies.  Since then, I've never 
heard of beekeepers putting stickies out at the start of the season.  I 
was in the storage shed more than once.  There was nothing noteable about 
it.  It wasn't heated or cooled.  It wasn't anywhere near airtight.  I 
guess it was at least dark enough inside to deter the nearby bees from 
getting in and cleaning the honey off.  The shed was just a rough, stand-
alone shed that his brother-in-law happened to have had available, 
sufficient simply to keep the supers from getting rained on.  The only 
noteable thing about the situation that I can think of is that it was a 
very dry area.  I wouldn't ever think of doing what he did, first of all, 
because I'd assume the honey would sour and possibly make my next crop 
more likely to sour, and secondly, because I'd figure I'd wind up with a 
huge insect problem (ants, etc.)  Does anybody store supers sticky or know 
of others that do?  What are the necessary preconditions, and the 
advantages, and disadvantages?

Eric

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